Featured Maps! Literary Maps – Authors, Characters, and Places

Theme for the week: Literary Maps

January 29-Feburary 7, 2018

Read a novel and follow a map.

Through the imagery of words your imagination can take you to different places in the world as you read a book or a novel.

The Map Collection has a few maps which focus on one author and the writings of that author. Other maps focus on one character and the adventures of that character. Other maps focus on one place and its connections to many famous authors.

Title: The Jane Austen map of England

Trivia answer:

James Bond traveled to Jamaica in two novels by Ian Fleming, Live and Let Die and Man with the Golden Gun. (According to Lewis and Zeleznik. The Ian Fleming thriller map, 1987.)

Map Collection: Location and Hours

The Map Collection room is normally open to the public in the basement (Lower Level) of Shields Library, Monday-Friday, 1:00-5:00 pm. However, our hours change around the academic calendar and holidays. To see the most accurate schedule, please visit this link: click here.

Contact the Special Collections Department for map related questions by email at speccoll@ucdavis.edu or by phone at 530-752-1621.